One of the things I’m enjoying about adjusting to a new platform is finding out what does and does not work. I kinda chuckle when I manage to find something that doesn’t work, especially if it also didn’t work in Manila, the platform on which I used to work.
Take changing categories as an example. Since […]
Update 2/14: CANCELED: Unfortunately, this event is no longer happening tonight. I will post an update when/if it gets rescheduled.
courtesy of the Berkman Center and David Weinberger. The next Web of Ideas talk is Wednesday, February 14, at 6 pm at Berkman. Can the Internet save democracy? Those of us there might be more interested […]
(Unfortunately, the WordPress import zapped Rich’s account on the scratchpad and he can’t post items directly in this space right now. I’m working with the server administrator to restore his and the other contributors’ privileges. Lucky for us, he’s still willing to share fantastic items by sending them to me via e-mail so I can […]
The New York Times features an article about a librarian at the Iraq National Library and Archive who has an online diary the British Library hosts. The British Library has been doing a lot of work to help the National Library and Archive. Encouarging director Saad Eskander to write about the situation is a powerful […]
Tonight, I unpacked a box of dishes that used to belong to my great grandmother. Based on the dates on the newspapers wrapping them, my Mom and I last went through the box about ten years ago. I remember going through the box and repacking the dishes, but I don’t remember it being that long […]
One of the side effects of the import is that the other writers on the scratchpad have lost their access because account information didn’t transfer to WordPress Multiuser properly. I’m working on a resolution with our fabulous server administrator, but it might take a while.
Meanwhile, Kim fed me an awesome definition of Web 2.0 via […]
I need to upgrade my home Internet service from dial-up to something quite a bit more robust. I want a connection that could, oh, support someone with an intense computer job telecommuting for ten hours a day. It needs to be able to handle the typical things we like to do on a T1 line: […]
I’m sure I probably caused a few of you who read the feed of j’s scratchpad a little bit of stress over the weekend by not blogging. You might have seen the post about the new platform, but by not receiving any content, you weren’t sure if something was wrong or if I just wasn’t […]
For a really long time, I’ve been procrastinating moving the scratchpad from Manila to WordPress. Harvard made the switch from Manila to WordPress many months ago and it’s been up to us with established blogs to move our content over. I realized a few days ago, I now have a deadline to make the move […]
Had I realized I wouldn’t be able to log into the Manila version of j’s scratchpad, I would have done a lot of tweaking there beforehand, like posting notes in several places about how that blog is now an archive and the real blog is elsewhere.
I should have done a backup with Wget and downloaded […]